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MAILS. Dus.—s Gottenburi,h, 2~4att4. PRICE 01 STOCKS THU PAY AT TWELVII O'CLOCA. COIISOIZ . - - 67 I Itcl. Ann. .. - 66 THE SUN. .110$,&M QV(' DICSILII r AtsU 411.121)FAI LONDON, SATURDAY, -JANUARY 7, isog. \\'a were yesterday enabled to lay before our Readers three additional Bulletins of the French army ; but &Om the lateness of, the hour at which we received•them, we were prevented from offering any observations upon their contents. After consi dering these Bulletins in every point of view, we are, we confess, at a loss to guess the motives which in duced the French Government to take the trouble ctt'setiding them over to this Country. The preced ing cargo of Bulletins certainly did contain some in telligence of importance, but these, with the excep tion of the account of the surrender of RoSas, do not contain a single military fatt of any importance. Even tholoni; disputed question about the occupa tion of Madrid is not settled by these Bulletins. BootiArAtto himself certainly did not choose to enter Madrid, but on account of the fineness of the weather, he has taken up . his residence about a Usgues from the Capital ; .nor does it appear that any part of his army are in garrison in the city. Indeed, from the account of the Municipal Sit ttng in 'Madrid on the gth,, it appears that the in habitants were then in a condition to propose terms toIitiOkAPARTB, and though their proposition is in thefOrin of a Petition, it has very much the air of a Treaty. If Boos ArAnri were absolute master of the city, the inhabitants might indeed implore his clemency, but they would not be quite so speci fic hi their demand~ as these petitioners seeni,to have been. They ask first, an oblivion. of every thing that has pa4sed since JOSZPR left Madrid ; par don for all those who throirgh fear bad left the City ; and for all the Peasants who had taken up arms. They fiyther ask of BUCiNAPARTI3 that he will order bl troops to •• respell pro perty, the holy tenipl&, the religious institu tions, in et . word, properly of every class." This certainty is not the language of the inhabitants of a eity carried by storm, and whose lives and property depended solely upon the pleasure of the congtleror. These Papers give us no information respeCting the Spanish Armies, and very little respeBing' the French I hut ',because BCONAPARTE has not given us many details of the movements of his Armies, we are not inclined from thence to infer, that his Army has remained in a state of inactivity since its arrival at Madrid. Indeed in the last Bulletin we are informed that SEBASTIANI'S division had marched for Talvara de la Reina, with the intention probably of making a diversion in Portugal, or of getting a strong corps in the rear of the British army, while another part of his force attacks in front. The Proclamations which BUONAI'ARTE issued from his Camp at Madrid,, are of a curious and important nature. In the ,first place, he offers a general Pardon to the Spaniards, that is to say, that after having treacherously trepanned their Princes into his power, after having, in defiance of the most solemn Treaties, and in time of profound race, invaded their territories.—After having-com mitted, in almost every part Of Spain, the most atipcious outrages, plundering the towns, murdering awl violating the inhabitants and profaning their temples—after all this, hi., offers them pardon, for having dared, to resist himl fly a Decree of the 4th or, Deotnber, the Duke D'lNvawrano, M. CavAo- Los, and several others were proclaimed Traitors to France and Spain. What allegiance they owed to France he has not condescended to explain , f a it in order that every part of thji Decree should be consistent, it proceeds to dire t, that these pro scribed Noblemen should be arrested, carried before • Militirry Tribunal, and shot; omitting alto gether the usual previous proCess of a trial. The inquisition and kudal rights are, as we atsted yesterday, abolished, and by one sweeping Decree, no less than two-thirds of the convents and monasteries in Spain are abolished; a measure of w hi c h, we venture to _predi6t, BooNAtas i aTe. will very soon have cause to. Tcpeat.. Yesterday, being the Anniversary of the Mani festation ot our Saviour to ars Gentiles, comutouly called " Thu Epiphany," the same was observed in the uittal manner at the Clopel Royal, in Si. James's Palace. Lord Jorr TIMM:, his tL'jesty's Vice. Chamberlain, attended in state, in the Royal Closet, to represent His MAJiLSTY as Head of the Church of England, with the'satne attendants 01 State, ibtl Te0111C1) of . the Guards, its if His MAJES.TY were present. Alter the service, an appropriate Anthem, " Arise ! shine 0 Sion ! for thy light is come," ( J ouiposed by the late Dr. Dururs, was very cut ::eetly sung try N4sirs. Gass, i L VtuouAN, SALmtit4. , . \ - .efiteruay morning, the Duke of CUMBERLAND kfillOilted the I ady CNA tmorrx F:scu Wittl ct visji, ►ii;er itartruents in St, Janicx's NAVAL NEWS. FALMOITTH, J. 4. 4rrived the. litittingbarti Packet, Captair4 Gaivt, with mails, from the Bra zils, after a passage of twelve weelts. She touched at Madeira, and it 44 days since. FaRTSIVOUTII, J►lAr. •6.--- Arrived his. Majesty's Ship Diligent, from Halifax; Avenor, from New foluldland and .Fedrnouth ; La Flee 4, from Cork; and the Primrose, from a cruize. Sailed his Nlajesiy's Ships Pheasant, fur Fal mouth, Defender and dint, from a cruize. PLY lOUTU, JAN. s.—Cagle in his Majesty's Ship Diana, from Corunna ; Eu4aprizo, GliAlf, from Stockholm ; Victoria , FLSUP NA, from Malta; Pickle, Scutma, from Newfoundland ; an 4 /Calor, Bola- TON, from Tencrifle; the French Sloop Superb, from Nantes, with provisions for Guadaloupe; and a Letter of Marque, of 4 guns and 2 t men, Prizei to Ins Majesty's Ship frulefiaiguble. MARGATE, JAN. ti.—His Majesty's sthouver Pigeon, came on shore near Kinvgate last night a t low water, and after beating upon the rocks on her broadside, as the tide made, she bilged. Two of the/ crew are lost ; one of them was drowned—the other perished with cold, the whole of the crew being for nine hours lashed to the mast. DEAL, JAN. 6.—. Arrived his Majesty's Ship Calliope, from off Flushing ; Britomart and 17y, from the Westward. Sailed his Majesty's Paz on cruize. The following is a corret statement of the British Forces at present in Spain and Portugal : CAVA IA 10th, 14th, Ist iSth, and loth Light Dragoons; and 3d regiment of German Light Oragoons. lAN r R ENvo tidal-unions of GtlaYd§ ISt. 2d, jd, 4th, Stit t 6th, and 9th Foot, (ad bait.) 9th and 14th (ad bats a3d, (ad bait.) 25t11, 27th ( ti ld batt.) zBth, 2911). list (=d butt.) Sad, 36th, 38th, 40th, 4a , 43d, ditto (ad Watt.) 45th, soth, SS tat, sae., ditto (Id bait.) 59th, Loth, (24 butt.) ditto (sth bait. 1 4 , die), Vet, 74411„ 79th, list,sad, 91St, gad, 9011, ditto, (ad bait. Wile) 97111, and 14 bait. of Ituyal Veteran;. Gaittamls—The isr. ad, 3d, and 7tll ltattalions of the Line; and Ist and id Battalions, Light infantry. Horse and Foot artillciy, Engineers, Stall' Lorps, Waggon Train, and C 0111111454114. GENtRALOIFICtiS.—ticut.-GeneralSir Iola) Craddock, K. 11. Lieut.-Gen. Sir (uhn Moore, K.B. Alex. M. Frazer, Sir D. Baird, K.C. John Hope; Major-Generals Lord W. lientinele, Hon. L. Paget, Hill lieresford, Dyntt ; 11rig,idit s Sl,ll l Disney. 4. Stuart. lion. C. W. Stewart, Lord Paget; On. 1. Broderick, M' Farlane, 11., Wade, Leith, W. tf. Clinton, Vane, Anstruther, 1. C. Crauford, Robert Craufurd. Colonel M'atiAaftra, with the 73d Highlanders, embarked Lit Leith, are daily looked for at Ports. awe t h. Yesterday the horses of the Guards were embarked at Portsmouth, therefore tbeie will be, nothing to prevent the sailing of the Expedition. Wednesday - the Hon. Brigadier General CAMP rut.t, of the Guards, arrived at Portsmouth, and, fur the present, he commands the hoops embarked. Lieut. Col. WALKER, who acquired immortal honour in the command of the 50th Regiment, in the battle of Vittleira, has been ordered to join the gallant band of heroes in Spain. It is expelled that this day the Expedition at Portsmouth will sail for Falmouth, where they will meet the troops from Scotland, Ireland, &c. Major-General Sftattmoms, who commands that part of the Expedition which was to have been un der Major-General SPENCER, is the friend of Sir A. WELLESLEY, and was Commander in Chief in Sicily before the gallant Sir JOHN STUART went out there. He arrived At Portsmouth yesterday, to take the command of the troops latelrfrdm Rams gate. They arc to sail under convoy of the his, of 50 guns. General Snettattoox has apprised. them that their service will be an arduous one... He has accordingly given orders that no Officer should take more baggage with him than what he would under take to carry; and that. no woman shall accompany the Expedition who is not able to bear great fatigue. The same exertions are making - in Ireland and Scotland as in this country to hurry off the troops. Aiernvit WELLESLEY is infusing energy into the 'departments in Ireland. The troops from that quar ter will sail from Coit to Falmouth, where they will meet those from this country. As an Officer, Sir Awrnva is looked up to in every quarter; to Ire land, he has so entirely the confidence of the soldiers, that, if allowed, the whole body of the Irish Militia, with a generous ardour peculiar ,to their country, would go as regitneots with him to fight the battles of the Patriot Spaniards. `A further supply of horses for the artillary.service has proceeded trom Chatham for Spain. A detach ment of the gun-drivers, consisting of forty men, and about eighty horses of the same establishment, are to take who them three hundred of the most ac tive and serviceable. horses, which have been sup plied for the cuntraL work, on the fortifications car rying on at Chatham ; from having lived hard, and being in the habit of constant inid hard work, they are supposed to be peculiarly suited to the kind of service on which they will be employed, when they arrive at the present seat of war. A Letter from the Captain of a Transport, dated Vigo Bay, f2bth December, contains the following passage Ceitunissioner BowEN is arrived here with a vast number of empty transports to take away the British troops ; they arc not, thank God, wanted on that occasion. The armies are joined, and all is going on well." INDIA Housz.--Yesterday a Court of DireaCES was held, when Capt. GEORGE itICHARD3ON was sworn in.° the command of the ship Dover Custle, cosigned to Bombay direCt, The Court adjourned at six &dot* till Wednesday next. Seventy-one girls and one hundred and one boys belonging to the Sub.lcription Charity School of St. Giles in the' Wields, and St. George, Bloomsbury, were yesterday entertained by the E4rl at d Coun tess of Poursmotan, at their mansion io Lincoln's Inn-fields, according to annual cloom. They had a comfortable dinner, and reeeind each a donation. of sixpence. FRENCH PAPERS. PROCLAMATIOt4 BY BUONAPARTE. SPAWIABDS !--You have been lnisled by perfi dious men. They have engaged you in a senaOless struggle, and you have had recourse to aims; Is there one amongst you, who after a moment's 'refle6lion upon all that has passed, would not be convinced that you haw! been the sport of the eternal enemies of the. Continent, who take delight in witnessing the effusion of Spanish and French blood ? What pos lible result would attend even the success of some campaigns ? An endless war upon yonr soil, and a tedious uncertainty respeeing the Ate of your pro pertiei and byes., • f( Within the space of a few months, you 'have been delivered up to all the afiliflitThs of popular fac tions. The defeat of your armies has been the work of some marches ; I have entered Madrid ; the rights of war would justify me in making a signal exam ple, by washing away in blood the outrages offered to me and to my nat;ori but I have livened to the dictates of clemency only. Some men, the authors of all your calamities, shall alome be punished. 1 shall speedily drive from the Peninsula that English army which has been sent to Spain, not for the pm , pose of assistance to you, but to inspire you with a false confidence and to mislead you. " I had declared to you in my Proclamation of the ad of June, that I wished to be your Regenera tor. To the rights which had been ceded to me by the Princes of the last dynasty, you wished that I should add the right of conquest. That shall not make any alteration in my intentions. I am even • disposed to praise all that may be generous in your efforts; I am willing to admit s that your real inte rests have been concealed from you, that the real state of tbings has been disguised from Spaniards . your destiny is in your own hands. Re jeet the poisons which the English have spread amongst you :—let your king be assured of your affection and your confidence, and you will be more powerful and more happy than ever you have been. All that obstructed your prosperity and your grandeur, I have destroyed; the chains which have borne down the people, I have broken; a tree COnstitution gives you a limited and constitutional, instead of an•absu lute Monarchy. depends upon yourbelves whe ther this Constitution shall still continue in your_ land. " But should all my efforts prove fruitless, and should you not merit my confidence, nothing will remain for in but to treat you as coucluered. pror. vinces, and to place my brother upon another 1 shall then place the Crown of Spain upon my own head, and cause it to be respected by the guilty; for God has given me power and inclination to surmount all obstacles. Given at our Imperial Camp at Madrid, Dec. 7, Itk)8. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor. Minister Secretary ul Slaty, (Signed) H. b. MAKUT. MUNICIPAL SITTING. hIALIfid, December 9, :24. This day, at Eleven o'clocic in the morning, the hour appointed for the opening of tile Sitting, the following persons assetaoletA tuether The Corrigidor ; the km:gams: time 'Alcacies ; the Depu ties of the Third ,Lstate ; the 11ca,ts of time Assettbly of time blasta* ; the Procur.ttois; the Alluazil-Majurs; the Smith*. gait Bishops ; the Vicars ; time Ludy atilt Curates atiml ficeti Clew; the Ile3mis of time &accent Commonalties; the Body of time Nubtisty ; time Deputies of the tyre priumakmal curpundlOilS ; anti all the DcpUtAtIWIS the 04 Divisions of the City of Nl.ithul. The Corregidor ruse to address the meeting, and informed them, that he had had the honour of betng admided to present the homage of his respect to his Imperial and Royal Majesty, and to lay at the foot of his throne the tribute of the gratitude of the in. habitants ut Madrid ter the kindness and clemency which :16 Nlajesty had shewu towards that city. The Curreplor exper,sed to his layerial mu! Royal Majesty the happiness 'which his presence shed over the city, and the desire with which all the inhabitants were animated to deserve and to justify filial a peculiar mark lit favour. The Corregidor, observed, that his Imperial and Royal Majesty had condescended to converse with . bun in the most benevolent manner, and added, that the object of this meeting was to acquaint the 1..),136 - ties of the City of Madrid with the beneficent in tentions of his Majesty. Accordingly he had to repeat to them in the same terms he had heard then), the sentiments of his Majesty, and the favourable tits positions he entertained towards the whole of Spain ; ijdding that the fate of Madrid would depend upon its own condua. That that would be a happy and prosperous one, if the inhabitants adhered faithfully to the Constitution, and acknowledged with since; rity., for their legitimate King, Don Joseph Napo, icon 1.; but that, on the other hand, 'Spain should be reduced to a Proviurnvf o:ance. Here the Corregidor drew a fiithful piture of the good natm:e of King JOSEPH, who had employed Iris butt offices and eutreatita lur the cunttrytition o f . that capital, as well as of the neighbouring cities, and who treated them with the tenderness 01 a generous father. rf all The Corregidor impressed upon the minds of a, the Deputies, that the presence of the King in his capital, should be considered as the greatest advan. tage that could be wished for it. Accordingly, the Deputies deeply penetrated with the sane sentiments, and anxious to contribute their, - best endeavours for the happiness of the inhabitants of Madrid, determined humbly to implore his Inx-.1: perial and Royal Majesty to indulge the capital with the presence of the King, that city, and even all_ Spain, being convinoed of the sigtial advantages which must be derived from the wisdonfof his Go- vernnaent. The Deputies insiktel, that a fresh tribute of thanks should be presented to his imperial and Aoyal l'll4esty, for the kindness with which he had treated 1 1 that City, which his triumphant arms had conquer• ed, and for the generous pardon of what bad hap. petted during the absence of King Joseph. His Imperial and Royal Majesty is also to be im plored to extend pardon to those whom fear had in. ' • dueed to desert the City, as well as to all the pea.. sants who had tal;en up arms. His Imperial and, Royal Majesty is also Onally to be implored, that he will be pleased to order hit troops to respe6t property, the holy temples, the re- L.:. ligious institutions ; in a word, the property of every ' • class. This bumble supplication la to be laid before Ilia Imperial and Royal Majesty, and is to be presenied to him by a Deputation taken from among the Ile. presentative' of the city of Madrid. It was resolved, in the same Sitting, that a tribute of the most lively gratitude should he presented tsi) the King iosarn N4Pot.gpN, whose happy'interces sion with his august Brother, the 4Mperor of thbt French * sitve4 :; thf city of Mqdfid. His Royal Majesty shall be humbly to grant the f4vour of his presence to the City: of Madit4, that under his just and beneficent gotrerwp , .,. went, good urger, justice, and tranquillity, may I, restored within its walls. His Royal 'ALtjesty shall he implored tO .ernploy biY guyal goad ofice* with hii imperial Aro‘lior, • that pardon may he obtained to the ela.ient a ati4 those inhabitants who have taken up acts. The preiegt Process-verbal shall by ecesentet4 to his Imperial and Royal Majesty. (Here follovf keysral thousand slotaturea.) s teas *-4 0 1100-4veeetissir 01111. -1,1444 f ar bionics of the Inbaloliatsqlsrtbse pnet t item‘ *tat low , acceded to a similar measure, which was accompanied with a vast number. of signatures. • The Council of the &Lista is composed of the , great p, pri:tors in Wile. CAPITULATION OF THE TOWN OF ROSits. ROMS, 11ac. 5.-... Capitulation of the `owit 4 . Rosa; and of the Castle of the Trinity, entered k tA t t% between Messrs. the Adjutant in Chief DornleNwslF4 Chief of th• Staff of the Italian Division, comtnand. ed by General Pino, and Chevalier Pin, Colomat Qummandant of the -Id Frenett Regiment of the Line, 'appointed by General of Division Reille, desCatup of his Majesty the Emperor and King, ork the one part, and Messrs Colonel Dan Pedro O'Daly„ Governor Commandant of the furtress of Aosta * , and of the Castle of the Trinity, and Don Mannol Lemur, Colonel of Engineers, on the other part. (The following are the 7'enins granted) .1 Awr. I. The Town and the Fort dual be deliver. ed, in the course of ihe day, to the troops of his Wjesty the Emperor aud King. 11. The garrison shall lay down their arms upotti the glacis of the place, shall be prisoners of wltr i -msti.' coudueted into France. The officers shall keep fill that belongs to them. 111. linipediateiy after the signature of the pre. Rent Capitulation, one gate of the Town of Rosati , and one gate of the Casale of the Trinity. shah W given up to two companies of grenadiers. (Signed) .114 AN DOMBROWSKI, Adjutant. Commandant, Chief of the gialt•Maijat PIO, Colonel-Major. DON PEDRO O'DALY. MANUEL LEMAUK. The present Capitulation is approved of. Csneral of Division commanding the Siege, - (Signed) RIELLE. • IMPERLAL DECREES, Dates hum the Imperial Camp at Burgos, the tzth of November, tlkli. NAtOLION, Emperor of the French, Kings! Italy, In 4 Protector of the Conlcderattodot the Rhine, " Considering that the troubles in Spain have been principally the effeet of plots, carried on by se vend individuals, and that the greater part of those who joined in them have been either misled or de ceived, wishing to pardon these, and to grant an -amnesty for the .crimes which they have committed against .us, our Nation and the King our Brother, wishing alto to mark those who, alter baying Want fidelity to the King, have violated that oath ; wbo, atter having accepted places, have only u sed the au' tbori.t . b was confided to them , to httraY their